Event

• Duck and Waffle is having a midnight feast and you're invited

  Head up to the 40th floor private dining room for a late night dinner with an epic view

• Sushi and champagne with Charles Heidsieck's Maverick Encounters

  One champagne house is tapping into the market for unique encounters. We went along to check it out.

• Carnaby Street Eat festival will be first time to try Darjeeling Express food

  

  If you like being the first to try any new restaurant, you should make a date for the Carnaby Street Eat food festival this summer. The one day event has all manner of great food offerings planned, but it'll also be the first opportunity for Londoners to try dishes by Asma Khan’s Darjeeling Express, whose first permanent restaurant will open shortly afterwards in Carnaby’s Kingly Court, as well as the soon-to-open Ugly Dumpling.

  On the day itself there'll be picnic

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• Noble Rot is teaming up with Gymkhana for a special dinner and more

  

  Noble Rot and Gymkhana – two of our favourite restaurants - have just announced a special one-off collaborative wine dinner to be held on Monday 27 February.Hosted by award-winning sommelier Sunaina Sethi and Noble Rot founder Dan Keeling, the dinner marks the launch of a month-long collaboration between the Bloomsbury wine bar and Michelin-starred Indian restaurant.

  Hosted downstairs at Gymkhana, guests will be led

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• Chefs and judges announced for the 2017 Scotch Egg Challenge

  

  Updated 19/1/17 with shortlist

  After six years, the Scotch Egg Challenge is now one of the key dates in the London food calendar. This year's event will take place at The Canonbury in Islington on 8 February.

  Confirmed judges for the event itself include Fay Maschler from the Evening Standard, Ben Chapman of Smoking Goat and Kiln and Bob Granleese of the Guardian, while the evening will be compered by Joe

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• London's best restaurants and bars for a January detox

  Good bye, mince pies. Hello 2017 and a healthier, brighter-eyed you, brimming with well meaning New Year’s resolutions. Whether you’re doing Veganuary, Dry January or just generally want to clean up your act, here’s where to do it in London.

• See, try and taste everything chocolate related at 2016's The Chocolate Show in London

  The Chocolate Show is the largest event of its kind in the UK - find out what to look forward to at this year's event.

• Lyle's reveal their line-up for 2016's Game dinners

  

  If you've wanted to attend either of Lyle's previous two game events but weren't fast enough off the mark, then this year might be the year you finally get to go. Hot Dinners have the scoop on the 2016 line-up for this top chef event and it looks pretty unmissable.

  The gist of it is that Lyle's chef James Lowe invites really interesting chefs from all over the world to come and cook over two days in October. But the dinners are the

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• See the line-up of chefs taking part in Hawksmoor's Action Against Hunger Dinner 2016

  

  There aren't many guarantees in life, but if there's one thing that's certain it's that the line-up at Hawksmoor's annual Action Against Hunger's dinner will be top-notch. And the 2016 group of chefs taking part for the 2016 charity dinner certainly doesn't disappoint.

  Guest chefs this year will work alongside Group Executive Chef Richard H Turner, each taking on particular course. So there'll be The Dairy's Robin Gill on canapés, Tomer Amedi from The Barbary

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• Sardine kicks off Gallic dinners with a bouillabaisse night

  

  It's already been lavished with glowing reviews - now there's even more reason to visit Alex Jackson's lovely Hoxton restaurant Sardine: on the last Monday of every month they'll be laying on a proper Gallic feast.

  Each event will feature a particular French recipe or special occasion, starting on Monday 26th September with a classic Bouillabaisse night. Alex and team have adapted a recipe from the doyenne of

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• The best foodie events at London Cocktail Week 2016

  London Cocktail Week returns for 2016 – here’s our pick of the best dining and cocktail events.

• London's Design Biennale opens with three food and drink installations

  

  The first London Design Biennale opens today at Somerset House featuring over 30 countries from six continents presenting new works exploring the theme Utopia by Design. The good news is that some of the art is good enough - indeed it's designed - to eat.

  1. Buy Syrian sweets

  For the French installation, Memories of Syria are collected and shared through le bruit des bonbons — The Astounding Eyes of Syria in a bid to preserve, stir up and

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• First look at this year's Magic Dinner menu

  

  If you consider yourself a serious London foodie then we can't think of a better way for you to blow £100 than tickets to Magic Breakfast's Magic Dinner. This is the second event hosted by the brilliant charity and they've got the hottest line-up imaginable.

  The deal is that there are 100 tickets, priced at £100 each for a six course dinner cooked by seven of London’s most exciting chefs. The whole thing takes place at Hoi Polloi at Ace Hotel, with the evening's

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• The best burger specials in the run-up to National Burger Day

  It's nearly time for National Burger Day - where places all over town will have 20% off burgers all...day...long. So you might as well start planning now for a burger-centric day. 

• London's first Croquetas Challenge is happening - and we're judging!

  

  We've had the Scotch Egg Challenge and Slider Decider, now London is about to host the first ever Croquetas Challenge. Ember Yard is going to be the venue for the inaugural contest this September and they have an amazing list of restaurants taking part.

  Contestants who have already signed up to put their croquetas to the test are Salt Yard, Social Wine & Tapas, José Pizarro, The Modern Pantry, Brindisa Kitchens, Oldroyd, Aqua Nueva, Duende, Copita, Barrica,

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